Del Paso Heights community and faith leaders announced Saturday that they've raised $15,000 for a reward leading to information on the shooting death of a Grant High School football player.

Jaulon Clavo, 17, was shot and killed Nov. 13 while driving with four others on Silver Eagle Road en route to their football game.

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One of his passengers was also wounded by the gunfire and is recovering. The shooting in broad daylight is highlighting a problem many in the neighborhood said has gone on for too long.

Murders -- likely with witnesses -- yet no one willing to speak out to police.

"Someone saw something, and someone heard something," said Nicole Clavo, Jaulon's mother. "Someone definitely knows who killed my son, and I hope it lays on their conscious until their dying day, or they come forward."

The reward was previously at $3,500, but thanks to more than 20 significant donations, it has since swelled.

"If money entices someone to come forward to the capture of these criminals, these killers, these predators, then so be it," Clavo said.

After a week of vigils and marches, those mourning Clavo's death are also getting angry.

"I just am mad, because what is it about, what is it over, couldn't it have been talked about, couldn't it have been dealt with a different way?" Pastor Phillip Goudeaux Jr. said.

The announcement was made just hours before Clavo's football team, the Grant High Pacers, took the field in a home playoff game.

Many players wrote tributes to their fallen teammate on their helmets, jerseys and pads.

Outside the stadium a memorial of signs, candles, and flowers remained a week after it was first erected. Many fans paused at the memorial to pay their respects.

"He was almost like a brother to me, so coming out here I just had to give him respect and show him I'm here for him all the time," Zaaem Anderson said.

Calvo's said she has spent the week preparing for her son's upcoming funeral.

She found time to attend Saturday's Pacers game, cheering on her son's team, this time without her son.

To make an anonymous report in connection with the case, people can call 916-443-HELP.